Jeanette Winterson
From QueerBio.com
Contents
Country
Great Britain
Birth - Death
1959 -
Occupation
Writer
Notable Achievements
OBE
Whitbread Prize
Description
First novel, 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel. Multiple award winner. Famously belligerent feminist. The much-lauded novelist recently sparred with the green-wellies brigade when she labelled Country Life magazine "a bunch of gay-bashers". Most recent novel is 'The Daylight Gate' (2013). Working on a series of short internet films with the BBC.
